BEGINNERS CLASS WINTER 2024

The beginners’ class this year was a friendly and cheerful bunch of 6 people who had all joined the club in the last few months. They enthusiastically tackled a lot of fundamental photographic topics such as exposure, aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, lenses and ISO.  Now it is time to practice, take pictures and have some fun doing it.

The next beginners’ course will probably be next year, depending upon demand. But if anyone in the club wants to learn more about any photographic subject please let the committee know and we will try to tackle it on a club night or put you in touch with someone who is willing and able to help out. 

PhotoEntry - Viewing Images In PhotoEntry

In PhotoEntry, it is easy to see all of the images that you have entered in to competitions along with the scores they received, but did you also know that (Once Judged) you can see the images and scores for the other members entries. And if the judge has left comment, you can also see those… Here’s how to do that.

Select the Season from the main menu

Select the competition - In this case, Annual Competition - Mono Round 2

 Once the status has been moved to "Judged" your entry/entries will be shown, along with the score

Click the View Entries For All Users button

 You will be able to view each class by clicking the link

You can view each entry in turn
 - The Class is in the top left
 - The Authors Name and Image Title is top-center
 - The Entry number (1 of 4) is in the top right
  - The Judges comments are displayed under the image along with the score.

 If you click the image, you can see a larger version.

You can change the border colour from white, to shades of grey and black

You can move to the next and previous image with the left and right arrows

 In the very top right, you can return to the viewing menu (to see the other classes) or Exit Viewing entirely to return to the main menu.

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 See the following video for a demonstration of the viewing application in PhotoEntry

Annual Exhibition 2021 - 3 Days To Go

2021/22 New Season Starts With a Great Presentation

For those that missed the first night back last night, it was a fantastic presentation from Nigel Forster billed as The Essentials of Landscape, it was actually something more akin to a landscape masterclass.

Nigel’s key message was to understand Why you are taking a photograph and what you are taking a photograph of, and in that way decide how you can make that clear to your viewer by understanding and controlling what adds to the composition and what detracts from it by using examples from his own photography, comparing various versions of his images with his final image.

For anyone that would like to re-watch the presentation, the link to the recording has been circulated to members (Please remember of course that it’s for members only so please don’t share outside of the club) Nigel has also provided the slides from his presentation for members to refer to, these will be circulated shortly.

If anyone would be interested in joining one of Nigel’s workshops, please speak to Debbie who has been on a few and can talk to you about them in detail.

Nigel’s contact details are as follows:

In other news, we have quite a few new members starting this season, including Graham and Jacqui Ireland, who are new to the area. Graham is a very accomplished photographer already, with around 15 years experience with Wareham Camera Club in Dorset. Graham was also a judge on the Stour and Avon Photographic Association circuit for Dorset and Hampshire for several years so will I’m sure be a very valuable asset to the club with a wealth of knowledge to share. Jacqui is also joining the club as a beginner. Welcome back too, to Fred Parker who is re-joining the club again this season.

There has also been a few members join the club over the summer period, so we’d also like to welcome Beau Bridges to the beginners section as well as Grant Ball and Phil Howell, Phil is starting his journey to LRPS and Grant is a very talented young (by club standards) photographer - both of whom will be joining in the intermediate class.